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Sectional committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The paper has been considerably shortened in response to his last report and a few figures have been deleted. It will now fill around forty four pages in the Philosophical Transactions. He still has some doubts about the views of the authors but the experimental side of the paper is sound.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1936].

Endorsed on verso as received 1 March 1937.

Reference number
RR/58/66
Earliest possible date
26 February 1937
Physical description
Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Robert Whytlaw-Gray

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Robert Whytlaw-Gray, Second referee's report by Robert Whytlaw-Gray, on a paper 'The persistence of the liquid state of aggregation above the critical temperature. The system ethylene' by Otto Maass and A L Geddes, 26 February 1937, RR/58/66, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_58_66/second-referees-report-by-robert-whytlaw-gray-on-a-paper-the-persistence-of-the-liquid-state-of-aggregation-above-the-critical-temperature-the-system-ethylene-by-otto-maass-and-a-l-geddes, accessed on 11 December 2025

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